Helping People and Communities to Be in Peace

Please Pray for the Innocents of War and Natural Disaster

This peace meditation, based on the Metta Lovingkindness prayer, was read in community in Arabic at our World Peace Day Celebration in Arsal, Lebanon, as we aligned ourselves in peace and coherence and shared our heart fields out into the greater world. Just days following this Peace celebration, towns within miles of Arsal were severely overwhelmed by military conflict and destruction.  Internally displaced refugees, many who have already experienced the trauma of war, are now flooding into the tent camps of Arsal, which were established more than 10 years ago to support refugees fleeing the neighboring Syrian War.  

Within weeks of this military conflict, hurricanes brought disaster and tremendous loss to communities in North Carolina and most recently in Florida.

The displaced survivors of floods from Hurricanes Helene and Milton and the displaced survivors of the conflict in Lebanon need our prayers and material support. Let's send our heart light and support to all displaced people in this world and pray that all people may one day have safe secure homes to return to.

How You Can Help:

https://www.fema.gov/.../4-ways-help-hurricane-helene 

Be in Peace is positioned with a team on the ground in Arsal to provide not only trauma relief services, but also food, clothing, and other basic necessities to those in need. Please help us help those who are seeking peace.  https://www.beinpeace.org/how-you-can-help

October, 2024

Families displaced from the current conflicts in Lebanon are streaming into the tent camps of Arsal, where Be In Peace has one of our bases of operations. The majority of our program participants have experienced war and have been living with war trauma for many years. The Be in Peace trauma relief programs, which include the Women's Stress Management and Children's Peacebuilders Training Programs, have taught participants to create an emotional safe zone within themselves. The recent military incursions have reignited the traumas of many of those who escaped the Syrian War into the safe haven of Lebanon, as well as for those citizens of Lebanon who are now directly experiencing the ravages of military conflict.  

Be in Peace is logistically positioned to provide and distribute material support of food, clothing and other necessities alongside our trauma relief work, but we are low on funds and need your support.  Please help us help those who are in the greatest need of peace.  Here's how you can help: https://www.beinpeace.org/how-you-can-help

September, 2024

Our World Peace Day Celebration in Arsal, Lebanon was a great success! More than 100 of our program graduates and their families attended a day full of peace-based activities, including a traditional Syrian welcome dance, a children's play about forgiveness and reconciliation, creation of a Peace banner comprised of paper handprints filled with peace messages, children coloring peace doves, a slide presentation about the work of Be in Peace and a group meditation based on the HeartMath® techniques, where we used the power of group coherence to send peace into the world with the words of the Be In Peace Coherence Meditation. It was a day of fun, and joyful community. Big congratulations to our team of staff and volunteers who put in all the time and effort to create this amazing event together! 

April, 2024

Be in Peace is happy to announce that starting April 1, 2024, we are launching our next series of Stress Management Training Programs for the women in Arsal, Lebanon through the end of Jued 2024, with our new local NGO partner, Bridges of Light / Jousour Al Nour. The mission of Bridges of Light is to spread the values ​​of love and tolerance, consolidate civil development work, and achieve social security.  They support women by offering various training courses, including how to write a resume and train women in the sewing profession at their center, so that women could work, gain financial independence, and help themselves and their families in tailoring, nursing, and manual trades. Together, we anticipate we will be able to support more than 100 women in bringing peace into their hearts, families and community between April and June, 2024. Stay tuned for more exciting new developments in the upcoming months!